Victorian Disused and Historic Railway Corridors

dataset: VIC_RAILWAY_DISUSED
This data was withdrawn from DataShare April 2025. This polyline dataset represents the centreline of disused rail corridors in Victoria. This includes track sections which are given a status of either "Closed" or "Minimum Maintenance". Some of these corridors are within existing VicTrack reserves, however others have been disposed of or were private tracks which are now disused. Some of these corridors now serve as rail trails.
 
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(2022)

Victorian Disused and Historic Railway Corridors

Department of Transport and Planning
 

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Description

Title
Victorian Disused and Historic Railway Corridors 
Alternate title
VIC_RAILWAY_DISUSED 
Purpose
This data was withdrawn from DataShare April 2025. This layer was created to identify disused railway corridors in Victoria 
Credit
Kalu Ribush 
Supplemental Information
History: The data is based in part on historic railway data maintained by the Department of Transport (DoT) Current Design Issues: The corridor dataset is a simplification of the rail network. The accuracy of some corridors is approximate. There are likely to be some missing elements to the network. Related Documents: None 
Status
Withdrawn  
 
 

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Spatial

Code
4283 
 
 

Maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed  
 
 

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Keywords

Topic category
  • Transportation
 
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
Unrestricted 
Classification
Restricted  
 
 

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Statement
Dataset Source: The data was created by the Transport Analysis and Assessment Branch of the Department of Transport (DoT) in consultation with Public Transport Victoria (PTV) Dataset Originality: Primary 
Description
Collection Method: On screen digitising relative to other spatial data and aerial photography 
Description
The alignments have been checked against the most recent available aerial photography. 
 
 

Metadata Constraints

Classification
Unclassified  
 
 

Quality

Attribute Quality
Comments
The status of some corridors may not be reliable. There is no clear distinction between status of "dismantled" and "disposed" or "out of service" and "closed" 
Positional Accuracy
Comments
Estimated to be 1:25,000 
Conceptual Consistency
Comments
Not stated 
Missing Data
Comments
This dataset covers all of Victoria 
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